Erect single-stemmed or shrubby herb or climber from a woody rootstock, 0.3–5 m. long or tall; stems brown with dense pubescence, eventually ± glabrescent.. Leaves opposite, oblong-ovate, 3.3–18 cm. long, 1.5–11 cm. wide, shortly acutely acuminate at the apex, truncate to slightly or distinctly cordate at the base, ± discolorous, slightly hairy on venation above and shortly pubescent beneath, mainly on the raised venation and minutely punctate.. Inflorescences terminal and from subtending axils, together up to 10 cm. wide; axes shortly spreading pubescent; pedicels ± 7 mm. long.. Calyx becoming plum-coloured or maroon, shortly pubescent; tube funnel-shaped, 5 mm. long; lobes pinkish, lanceolate to triangular, 3–7 mm. long, acute.. Corolla sweetly scented, white or cream with red throat, one lobe often with crimson or red markings on a white ground or ? all mauve; tube slender, 1–1.7 cm. long; limb ± asymmetrically globose in bud; lobes elliptic, 6–10 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, rounded.. Stamens exserted, 3–4 cm. long.. Fruit shiny, blackish grey, 1–1.2 cm. long, 7 mm. wide; seed white, ellipsoid, compressed, 8 mm. long, 5 mm. wide; calyx persistent.. Fig. 13, p. 98.
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A climbing shrub up to 20 ft. high, or sometimes suberect
Flowers white, sometimes with a pink throat
Calyx green below and white above.
Grassland with scattered trees, scrub of Lophira, Butyrospermum, Annona etc., riverine thickets; at elevations from 900-1,800 metres.
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